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>Avoidant personality disorder
I'm just glad that its not one of the personality disorders with a whole lot of stigma attached or a ton of online content made about how to spot it in people. Its like the boring personality disorder. The one that nobody feels too tempted to armchair diagnose in others. Everyones asshole ex 'must be' either bpd or a narc now but avpd.. Its not the juiciest PD so not trendy to turn it into this casual thing you gossip about.
Pain to live with it, was like hitting the same brick wall over and over trying to fight the urge to hide from everything. When I was a teen and showing signs already but not diagnosed yet I had my parents as a buffer to the world. Not that bad when you're still young but I essentially swapped that out when later I had bfs I leaned on too much. Needing them as my social crutch or my buffer against having to do certain things by or for myself. That was when I wish I'd thought of the bigger picture. Whats best long term and not just whats comfortable in the moment. Those times only stunted me. Felt like phases of regression and of course when a relationship ends and you've been that dependant on them its alot to have pulled out from under you. My first break up was me going into crisis not knowing how to cope without him. Not just how to cope. How to leave the house again. I'd needed that trusted chaperone for years and both guys (next one too, I'm a slow learner) were weirdly only too happy to oblige when it clearly wasn't doing me any favors. I deep down knew that. That's on me. I recognized that it was taking me backwards and still leaned into what was easier in the moment.
It was self esteem destroying as time ticked on and I was getting older.. still needing a crutch-person to do certain things. Leaning on others was always my downfall. Made some good progress now while single and I just dread that if I meet someone that old trap of having them slowly become my crutch would come back. Done too well to go back on all that now.
No. 2269317
>>2269267yes, im schizoid schizotypal
>>2269288yes theoretically but in practice not really, behaviors that would get diagnosed as disordered are either too different, not extreme, or similar enough that borderline personality disorder label would cover all the disordered behaviors